The Limitless CMO, with Lisa Cole
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I want to share three experiences I’ve had and I want you to see if there’s anything off about them: A while ago I sat with a RevOps leader, while they scrolled through a CRM where every single lead was tagged as an MQL. "Marketing sets them all to that," they said matter-of-factly. Sales knew, marketing knew, and everyone went along because the company was venture-backed and under executive demands to produce. Marketing simply bent the metric so the dashboard would look healthy. A Director of Marketing I knew understood that he could put a large budget bump in his annual plan....
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Running CTV & OOH Video Ads, with Aaron Foley
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Up to the end of the twentieth century, the only ads that appeared on a screen were the ones arranged by a handful of TV networks. They were the only ones who could sell commercials, and only the biggest companies could afford what they charged for 30 seconds of airtime. Then, about 25 years ago, some digital marketing innovations started to make a new ad model possible. In 2000, Google launched a self-serve ad platform, and it was later joined by display ad exchanges like Right Media and DoubleClick. For a while, they displayed image ads, but faster broadband internet eventually meant they...
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Rebranding Done Right, with Travis Gobeil
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What Analysts wish marketers knew, with Marc-Andre Seguin
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Some of us are lucky enough to work in a place with analysts who can help us make sense of our data. But there are added challenges in making this collaboration work. Analysts may struggle with the questions marketers ask, finding them too vague for analyzing. Marketers may get data back that they find irrrelevant; they may assume the analyst misunderstood their request. I’ll grant that we can speak the same language, but that isn’t enough. An Analyst cannot look at all the data, they cannot do analysis that will answer all your questions. The outcome you get will match...
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The Personal Branding Book, with Daria Dmitrieva
Funnel Reboot podcast
When I ask how someone forms their perception of a brand, what comes to mind? It might be they hear about it by word of mouth, or on an email thread or private message. In a nutshell, what’s said about our company when we’re not in the room, when we’re not in control of the message. Now try the same experiment with our personal brand. Is our immediate thought how to look as good as possible? Is it how to curate the results that pop up when they search our name? Truth is, our personal brand has already been formed, we just weren’t in on those conversations. Being active on...
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Balancing Data in B2B Partnerships, with Brendan Ziolo
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“Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb says “understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit" He might have been referring to B2B marketing. Think of it. Internal teams have internal data that give insight into customer accounts and lifetime value. Their agencies are close to different data: media auction signals, campaign trends. But both of them are data-poor, disadvantaged by limited access to each others’ systems. As long as we tolerate the status quo, both sides will keep making false...
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Content, Simplified with Lee Densmer
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Talk of Content marketing started appearing online around 2007. One of the few people who started talking about it was former Funnel Reboot guest Joe Pulizzi. It wasn’t until 2014 I became aware of marketers who were staking their career on the profession of creating content. I found the idea of giving-away-expertise a bit unsettling. Maybe it was because for a dozen years prior to that, I’d mainly communicated with audiences through paid ads. Gradually, Content marketing won out - we simply expect content on social media brings marketing results. Only one problem, our...
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Why you want AI to be a more Skilled Marketer than you, with Chris Dore
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Small businesses run on lean marketing teams and tight budgets, but don't count them out. They're the overwhelming majority of businesses on earth. Small companies have one function that's poised to figure out AI through experimentation, analysis and strategic changes in direction. It's marketing, and it may very well determine the winner of the AI race. After graduating from Laurentian University, our guest worked in corporate and consulting positions across Canada and even in Korea. He then founded a business which he grew to a successful exit, which led to mentoring students at Algonquin...
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Earn It! with Steve Pratt
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Everyone makes content now. But having content doesn’t automatically mean anyone will actually consume it. There are brands with long-running programs and audiences that carve out time for their content, while other brands’ programs fade because it became a thankless chore. What’s different between content that’s adored and content that dies in obscurity? The brands that win make content that audiences don’t see as branded content. Where the work they made was so genuinely useful, or surprising, or true — that instead of feeling exploited, the recipients felt like they...
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From Adversaries to Advocates: How to win friends (and budgets) with data
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I can't prove it, but I think many marketers wish they could improve how they're perceived by corporate leadership. I have felt this way in more than one role, and racked my brain on how to fix it. I've entertained everything including coming to board meetings with a dozen custom-branded donuts. Thankfully, the a solution I have come up with isn't extreme and it doesn't require donuts. I was recently given the chance by a local association - the OPMMA - to give a talk and I picked this problem. I hope as you listen to how I think it's solved and the three moments where this...
info_outlineWhen I ask how someone forms their perception of a brand, what comes to mind? It might be they hear about it by word of mouth, or on an email thread or private message. In a nutshell, what’s said about our company when we’re not in the room, when we’re not in control of the message.
Now try the same experiment with our personal brand. Is our immediate thought how to look as good as possible? Is it how to curate the results that pop up when they search our name? Truth is, our personal brand has already been formed, we just weren’t in on those conversations.
Being active on our social media accounts can help, but we can also send the wrong brand message, shooting ourselves in the foot. When I first got onto Facebook and X, I feared that posting too much content would make me look distracted. When I did post, I felt a certain portion of them should be about my company or at least something generic. If I did have an opinion, it had to be watered down.My thinking was I should talk how my employer wanted me to talk. Turns out that is the complete opposite of how I should have been branding myself.
It wasn’t until I hung out my own shingle, that I realized being a generic-sounding consultant made me a commodity. That meant my rates were set by the market - I had to be a price-taker. But employees who act generically are also treated as commodities who must take whatever salary is offered. So regardless of where you sit, you’re better off with a good personal brand.
Am I saying employees should kiss ass on social, posting about how much they love their work? No. They can post thoughtful criticisms about the industry, they can post solutions to problems they and their peers face. Content like this boosts a person’s brand without offending employers. They know you won’t always be working for them; they’ll bask in your halo while they can get it.
But before you put out content you have to get introspective on what your brand stands for. It’s hard for us to stare at a sheet of paper and figure this out, we get better results using a framework. And this is where our guest can help.
Since getting her MBA from Moscow International Higher Business School, she has managed some of Europe’s largest brands, from Stollwerck, to Nestlé and Shell. She is also a visual artist, marketing consultant and coach. Her 2026 book deals with this very issue.
Let's go now to the French seaside resort town of Cannes to speak with the author of “The Personal Branding Book”, Daria Dmitrieva.
Chapter Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:27 Meet Daria Dmitrieva
03:12 Brand As A Compass
05:55 Premium Brand Parallels
08:56 Authenticity Over Packaging
13:33 Fear And The Shadow Gift
19:04 Become A Magnet
22:26 CEO Dreamer Critic Roles
26:33 Body Cues And Intuition
28:39 Celebrate Progress
32:02 Daria Origin Story
35:35 Where To Find The Book
Links to everything mentioned in the show are on the Funnel Reboot site's page for this episode.